Freddie Prinze, Jr. Interview on Jimmy Fallon (2010)

USA WEEKEND
Interview: Freddie Prinze Jr. on his dad, Mel Gibson and violent video games
January 2000

Freddie Prinze Jr. has the same handsome looks as the famous father he lost to suicide when Freddie was an infant. Prinze, 23, who stars in the new big-screen comedy Down to You, also has something his dad (of TV's Chico and the Man) seemed destined for: a successful movie career.

USA Weekend: Your Down to You character struggles to find meaning in life. Can you relate?

Freddie: "It's kind of close to the last few years of my life. He's always messing up with his girlfriend. Every time he thinks...

PREMIERE
"I would amor to be a superhero"
February 1999


"I would amor to be a superhero," Freddie Prinze, Jr. says, not joking. "That's my main dream." At 22, the smooth and soulful estrela of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and its $72 million-grossing predecessor dreams of many things. "I'd amor to be a cowboy; I'd amor to be a husband, a big brother, a little brother - there are so many roles out there that I haven't even gotten to touch."

Hollywood has always been in Prinze's blood - his father, the late Freddie Prinze, was the estrela of television's Chico and the Man - but a career in front...

POPSTAR!
"A super intimate chat with cinema’s sweetest
Scooby Snack…Freddie Prinze Jr."
September 2001
By Sean Daly


Freddie Prinze Jr. the #1 teen attraction at the box office, appearing in so many youth-oriented films it seems almost typecasting the he’d be assigned to play a cartoon-he’s blond beefster fred figglehorn in the big-screen, live action adaptation of Scooby Doo.

But for all his larger-than-life magnetism and his multiple-friendly charm, he is surprisingly quiet and unassuming in person. For this interview, Freddie arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel in L.A. wearing a purple camisa (unbuttoned),...

MOVIELINE
March 1999
By Stephen Rebello

Among Hollywood's under-30 crowd, where attitude is often everything, how supremely cool it is to run across a guy so openhearted and endearingly odd around the edges as Freddie Prinze, Jr. "There's nothing you can't ask me because I'm not ashamed of anything I say," says the 23-year-old, who looks like he could play Keanu Reeve's sadder-eyed, mais soulful younger brother. So how, having become increasingly "money" since starring in two I Know What You Did Last Summers is he managing to stay so beatific and unguarded? "My mom raised me in New Mexico at the...

COSMOGIRL
Prinze Charming
September 2001
By Deborah Baer


What makes Freddie Prinze Jr. CosmoGIRL!'s Sexiest Guy of the Year? Anyone who's seen his movies- from She's All That to his most recent, Summer Catch- might say, without hesitation, his beautiful, honest eyes! His cute butt! But after reaching him on the phone while he was 8,000 miles away shooting Scooby Doo in Australia, we realizes it's not the physical stuff at all. It's that this is a guy who's always thinking - about others, about the way the world works, about how he can make himself a better person. And that quality is way mais attractive...

DOLLY MAGAZINE
January 2002
By Gill Pringle


UH-OH, FREDDIE’S IN TROUBLE! IT SEEMS THE SCREEN BABE HAS BROKEN HIS PACT WITH BRIDE TO BE SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR. HOW? WELL, THE PAIR AGREED NOT TO DISCUSS THEIR INTIMATE amor AFFAIR-BUT FREDDIE JUST COULDN’T KEEP QUIET. AND, MAN, IS THIS JUICY STUFF!


“After years of feeling like an outsider, I finally have a woman I love, and friends that I can trust. I am the luckiest man in the world to have met Sarah.” So says Freddie Prinze Jr, and actor who has overcome an enormously unhappy childhood to become one of the Hollywood’s hottest rising stars....

COMICS CONTINUUM
Freddie Prinze Jr. Talks Mutant X
April 2003


Freddie Prinze Jr. told The Continuum that he hasn't seen the episode of Mutant X that he has written - yet.

"One Step Closer," an episode spotlighting Brennan, airs in syndication this week.

"My wife doesn't want me to see the finished episode until it airs this weekend," Prinze said, referring to Buffy the Vampire Slayer estrela and Scooby-Doo co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar.

"Seth (Howard, Tribune's creative executive) sent me the dailies and the show looks amazing. They did a great job with my script and I can't wait to see the final result."...

TRIBUTE
A Conversation with Freddie Prinze Jr.
June 2002
By Bonnie Laufer

Tribute’s Bonnie Laufer chats with Freddie Prinze Jr. about his incrível obsession with Scooby-Doo.


B.L. Freddie, you must have had a complete riot making this movie, I mean who wouldn’t want to play Fred?

F.P. Well, actually in the beginning I didn’t. I wasn’t sure that the script was going to be any good and I didn’t want to see this cartoon made into a sham. But when Sarah got the role of Daphne and then I read the script, I couldn’t stop laughing and I knew I had to play Freddie.

B.L. I know that you are...

TEEN PEOPLE
Cover Story
June/July 2001
By David A. Keeps

FREDDIE PRINZE JR.'S GOT IT ALL: FAME, FORTUNE AND SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR. HE ALSO HAS A PAST. HERE HE TALKS ABOUT HIS FATHER'S SUICIDE, HIS GEEKY CHILDHOOD AND LOSING HIS VIRGINITY.

BETWEEN MAKING filmes AND MAKING OUT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, Sarah Michelle Gellar, you'd think that Freddie Prinze Jr. wouldn't have a moment to spare. But when the opportunity to go bowling with TEEN PEOPLE comes along, Freddie strikes. Fresh from a morning workout at the início gym he had built in his four-car garage, he parks his banged-up black Ram pickup and strides...

INSTYLE MAGAZINE
Man of Style
August 2001

Freddie Prinze Jr. expounds on the art of dressing simply, his style heroes, women in boxers, being accident-prone--and why he's head over heels for fiancée Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Freddie Prinze Jr. knows that size doesn't matter. At 6-foot-1, the 25-year-old actor spent years feeling cheated out of a few extra inches. "I fell off a roof and crushed my spine," he says of an accident he had when he was younger. "The doctor said I should have been 6-foot-4." But ever since I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997, the son of the late comedian Freddie Prinze...

PARADE
"Nothing Could Stop Me But Me"
August 2001
By Dotson Rader

"I WAS ALWAYS ON THE OUTSIDE looking in," Freddie Prinze Jr. said of his childhood. "I was never accepted anywhere. People thought I was weird. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't fit in."

By the time Freddie Prinze Jr. was 18, he was a self0described loner - unhappy, unpopular, a bad student. Then, in 1994, shortly after graduating from La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, N.M. he decided to drive across the desert to Los Angeles and become an actor.

"I had to do something with my life," Prinze admitted. "I couldn't get into...